Parents embarassing gaffes when meeting your friends etc

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Yesterday my brother came home with his new girlfriend to introduce her to my parents. We were going to the races (horse) and she was due to come to ours for breakfast first and then come along.

Anyway she was delayed and so we had to pick her up on the way, hence she missed the breakfast. During the journey my Mum said "you must be starving, we had a lovely breakfast for you". My brother's girlfriend was like "oh no I'm ok really". Then my Mum said, thinking she was making a fairly innocuous mumjoke "there was plenty of food left, barry (my brother) could have kept a sausage in his pocket for you".

Pretty slapstick but I couldn't stop laughing at the awkwardness when the comment was allowed to settle, it was great.

Any similar stories?

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 8 December 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Does my mum using the word "dyke" when referring to my gay friend and then, on seeing our horrified expressions saying "b-b-but you said she was out of the cupboard" count?

― smee (smee), Monday, 8 December 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

At gay uncle's birthday party surrounded by his gay friends, my grandmother, apparently encouraging blowing out of cake candles, squealed 'Poof! poof! poof!'

My mum has probably made many gaffes due to being deaf and misreading people's lips, I can't begin to remember them.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 8 December 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

like when the parents emerge in the hallway, arms flashing, lights out - now we see the mesiah- she is fire - fire - glow littel bastard/

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Monday, 8 December 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

my mom spent a few years as a kindergarten teacher, which means that she often treats my friends like they're 5.

worst example of this was going out to dinner with a boyfriend, who didn't know how anti double-dipping my mom is (you know, where you take a bite of something and then dip it in the oil/sauce/whatever again?) and she actually smacked his hand so he dropped the bread.

i was embarassed.

last time they visited there was the language barrier. dad asked (english) boyfriend if he'd like a beer. boy said 'oh, go on then' and dad then moved on to another conversation. boy thought dad just hated him or something and was ignoring his request intentionally. i had to stop him and explain that 'go on then' means 'yes please' in england, not 'i'll skip this round' like it would in america.

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 8 December 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The other night, my parents came to see my band play. My friend Eric introduced himself to them. Apparently, my dad said, "You look like Andy Richter!" Now, Eric was drunk off his ass on vodka tonics, so he repeated this story to me at least half a dozen times throughout the night, but I'm not sure how he took it. He does look like Andy Richter, a little bit (probably more like John C. Reilly), but maybe that could be seen as an insult? At any rate, it was awkward.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 8 December 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't wait 'til my boy is a teenager and I can resurrect the "Pookie" nickname in front of his "cool" friends.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 December 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Xmas, ooooh 1989 or so, I was about 12. There was a party in my house and the house was divided with my parents and their friends drinking in the kitchen and then my brothers and their friends drinking in the sitting room. I went up to bed because I was getting frightened by all the rowdy, drunken grown-up's although when I went to bed I couldnt get any sleep cos they were making too much noise downstairs and then, at one point I went up to the window and I see my mother going to her car and SHRIEKING "What's going in there?!". About a half hour or so later my brother storms into my room going "Fuck it fuck it" and I'm asking him what happened and he wouldnt tell me. Then my eldest brother Tom comes in and roars at him while he's stuffing his face with apple tart at the same time-"you're some fuckin eegit"...of course it's only a couple of weeks later I find out that he was getting a blow-job from some girl in the village in the backseat of my parents VW Jetta and my mother knocked on the window and caught him in the act!!

Not so much of a gaffe I guess, but it's first anecdote that immediately sprang to mind.

― Michael B, Monday, 8 December 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

My favourite is a story my dad told me about his dad. It's an old joke but I still laugh when he tells me the story. My dad brought a girl home one time to meet my grandparents and my grandpa couldn't resist having some fun with the poor girl. He went up to her holding a towel and an orange and said to her "I'll bet you I can turn this orange into a peach" to which she said (thinking he would do some silly magic trick) sure. He put the orange inside the towel and instructed her to hold the orange and twist it. While she was twisting the orange he gradually moved the towel down to his crotch and once it was there (she was still holding the orange) he looked at her and said "isn't that a peach?" HA!!!

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 8 December 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

When my stepfather's brother brought his future wife (who was more observant) for the first time to a Passover dinner, my grandmother served... a ham.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 8 December 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Dynamite ham...

― ModJ (ModJ), Monday, 8 December 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Best ever was when my husband first met my grandfather (who was living with my parents at the time). Grandpa greeted him by offering him a Playboy magazine, assuring him that there was some really good stuff in this one. Then, during dinner, he explained that "them Jews" owned all the land in Baltimore. Doug was immensely tempted to claim to be Jewish (and claim to own all the land in Baltimore).

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Bump to remind myself to update this if my grandmother accuses girlfriend of bombing Pearl Harbor.

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Soon after meeting a new girlfriend, I stopped at my parents (I didn't think they were in) to drop some stuff off. As we walked in through the door my mother spied my girlfriend as said "Oh you must be [insert name of previous girlfriend]".

"Er, no, I'm [xxxx]" she replied, to which my mother did a double take and said "Oh yes, [previous] was a slim girl wasn't she?".

Cheers, mother.

(They later became very good friends, oddly).

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Saturday, 15 April 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Friends' embarrassing gaffes when meeting your parents.

― bamcquern, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 13:01 (sixteen years ago)

one senses that disclosure is near

― kevision questler (country matters), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 14:12 (sixteen years ago)

when my dad invited my (then fairly new) girlfriend and i to visit him in the states, he took time off work (trawler fishing) to see us. he neglected to tell his girlfriends this, and they kept calling in at various times to express surprise that his car was outside- leading to a number of strange introductions.

― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 14:33 (sixteen years ago)

classic story

― mountain G.O.A.T. (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 14:37 (sixteen years ago)

L-R: Dad, New Girlfriend, Darraghmac

http://www.crazyabouttv.com/Images/twoandahalfmen.jpg

― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 14:40 (sixteen years ago)

My friend Jasper stopped by my family's house for the first time before he went to a costume party, which he was dressed for in a gown and makeup. My dad asked, "Is he gay?" I told him Jasper was just dressed for a party but I don't think my dad believed me. About four months later, Jasper went through this obsessive Alex Grey phase, inspiring him to shave off half his long hair. My dad asked, "Is he bi? You know, boy side, girl side?"

― god bless this -ation (Abbott), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 21:11 (sixteen years ago)

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